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Thursday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› How Brightview's business development division is seeing growth in Northeast Florida
A commercial landscaping company that has done major projects around the state is looking to expand its development business in Jacksonville, with several big projects locally already under its belt. Publicly traded BrightView handled the landscaping at the Jacksonville Jaguars' Miller Electric Center practice facility and multifamily prorjects at The Doro, the Grand Cypress Apartments in St. Johns and at Durbin Creek.
› Florida Strawberry Festival announces theme for 2024
The 89th annual festival will take place from Feb. 29, 2024 to March 10, 2024 in Plant City. Officials with the festival said that a new theme is created each year in order to offer guests a glimpse of the experience they will have at the event, as well as unify vendors, FFA chapters, organizations, corporate partners and exhibitors, who create parade floats and displays.
› No tax rate cut planned in Manatee County for FY 2023-24
Manatee County commissioners adopted a tentative $1.22 billion net budget and set a tentative 6.2326 millage rate for the 2024 fiscal year on Tuesday night. The meeting was the first of two hearings necessary for final approval of the gross $2.924 billion budget, if all appropriations, reserves, transfers, trust funds, internal services, and cash balances are considered.
› Miami-Dade Auditorium to get major upgrade
A design team continues its survey of the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, the first step in a planned five-year renovation, according to Liliana Hernandez-Constenia, marketing officer with the Department of Cultural Affairs. In June 2022, county commissioners, after a competitive solicitation, approved spending almost $3.5 million to hire Arquitectonica International Inc., a Miami-based design team of architects, engineers and theater consultants, to survey the 72-year-old auditorium.
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